In cipher

Immediately purchase and dispatch to Petrograd up to two million poods of wheat.

Urgent delivery is the most essential condition. Partial delivery of flour is permissible, as is rye. Every three days inform by cipher regarding the status of this priority assignment.

An official requisition for the necessary currency will be obtained separately.

7 May. Lenin*

*In the book "Documents of the Foreign Policy of the USSR." Moscow, vol. IV

First printed in 1960.

Text printed from a photocopy written in the hand of L. B. Krasin.